via Catalin Cimpanu, writing at the ZeroDay Blog at ZDNet, comes news of the reportedly successful test disconnect of Russia from the Internet-At-Large (so to speak). Effectively modifying those network connects to point inward (with no external routing) - thus making the internal Russian interweb (monikered RuNet) into the largest intranet on the planet. Perhaps they should maintain the disconnected state of their networks permanently...